Part 2
Public Notice will be given of the Time and Place of Drawing; and as soon as the Drawing is finished, a List of the Prizes will be published in _Edes_ and _Gill's Boston Gazette,_ &c. and the Money paid to the Possessors of the Benefit Tickets, in Twenty Days. Gold as well as Silver will be received for the Tickets, and the Prizes paid off in like Manner.
Prizes not demanded within Twelve Months after Drawing, will be deem'd as generously given for the Purpose aforesaid, and will be applied accordingly.
--> Tickets may be had of the Managers, or of _Green & Russell,_ in Queen-street, who will receive Prize Tickets in LAND-BANK LOTTERY.
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In 1782 the State of Massachusetts granted a lottery for the benefit of the paper-mill at Milton.
The Clergy were often asked to use their influence to promote special schemes. For instance, the Leicester Academy at Lancaster, Mass., wishing to raise about $800, advertised on June 28, 1790, a lottery, the scheme comprising three thousand tickets at $2.00; and the managers, Edmund Heard and Ephraim Carter, say, "_As the design of this Lottery is for promoting Piety, Virtue, and such of the liberal Arts and Sciences as may qualify the Youth to become useful Members of Society, the Managers wish for and expect the aid of the Gentlemen Trustees of the Academy,_ the REVEREND CLERGY, _and all persons who have a taste for encouraging said Seminary of Learning_." Comment on this is unnecessary. As unscrupulous persons often sold drawn tickets,--for it seems there were irregularities even in those days,--the following advertisement warrants the tickets undrawn,--
Wheels very rich!
A FEW undrawn Tickets in Amoskeag Lottery for sale by _John Russell._
--> The highest prize being so fixed as to come out whenever Chance shall direct it, it stands purchasers in hand to be seasonable in their applications. July 24, 1807.
_Lottery Price Current._--In Boston, Amoskeag Tickets, warranted undrawn, 6 dolls. In Salem, at Russell's 5.50--at Cushing and Appleton's, not warranted, 5.
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_Further Information._--The Amoskeag highest prize, of Eight Thousand Dollars, is still undrawn, and the wheels are extraordinarily rich, having gained, since the drawing began, upwards of Six Thousand Dollars. There is therefore every probability that the scrip will soon rise. Those who intend to purchase for the sake of a chance for the highest prize, are advised to do it _before_ it is drawn out of the wheel, which may be to-morrow. Those who purchase for the sake of a cheap ticket, would do well to wait till _afterwards._ July 24, 1807.
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*** If any body wants TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, they are requested to call on JOHN RUSSELL, who will, for a trifling consideration, put them in a way to realize that, or another sum of less magnitude, in the course of September next, when the rich Wheels of Hatfield Bridge Lottery will begin to move.
--> Tickets will rise on the first of September to 5.50--Prize Tickets exchanged. (1807)
In 1776 the Continental Congress endeavored to raise a large sum by means of a lottery. On the first of November of that year the following Resolve was passed,--"That a sum of money be raised by way of lottery, to be drawn at Philadelphia." A committee was then empowered to manage this lottery, and agents were appointed in the several States to sell the tickets. From causes difficult now to explain, the drawing, which was to have taken place in 1777, was postponed from time to time, until finally, it is said, the whole scheme proved a failure. Many of the adventurers being large losers, much bad feeling was produced towards the Government. The design was to raise the money in the way of a loan. There were four classes of tickets, a hundred thousand in each,--$10, $20, $30, and $40; in all $10,000,000. In Lossing's "Field-Book of the Revolution," from which we derive this account, may be seen a copy of one of these lottery tickets. Probably the people were too poor at that time to furnish the requisite sum of money, and so the tickets did not sell readily; or the lottery may have been badly managed.
Congregational Churches used to raise money by lottery, as appears by the following advertisement in the "Columbian Centinel," May 5, 1792,--
_NEWPORT LOTTERY TICKETS._
--> _A few TICKETS, in the Newport Congregational Church Lottery, which commences drawing the 10th instant, may be had at No._ 61 LONG-WHARF _if applied for immediately. May 5._
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At a town meeting held in Salem, Mass., on Dec. 28, 1789, "George Williams, Esq., General Fisk, and Joseph Sprague, Esq., were chosen a Committee to estimate the expense of clearing out the Channels in the North and South rivers; and to prefer a petition to the General Court for the grant of a _Lottery_ to aid the town in so beneficial an undertaking." We believe this project was never carried through; but we are of opinion that some residents of Salem would now welcome even a _raffle,_ if in that way their North River could be purified, as at present no other method seems so likely to succeed, judging from the controversy which has been going on in that city for several years without effecting any result.
The "Massachusetts Centinel," May 22, 1790, notifies the "_Friends of Science_" that "a few ... Williamstown Free-school Lottery Tickets ... may be had of the Printer."
MARBLEHEAD, APRIL 3. The highest Prize in the State Lottery was drawn by a number of Females: About thirty were joint possessors of that fortunate number and five others: The highest share in them did not exceed one dollar, and the lowest was nine pence, expressive of the different abilities of the concerned; by which circumstance, the property of the prize is most agreeably divided: It has excited a smile in the cheek of poverty, nor diminished the pleasure of those in easy circumstances.
_Massachusetts Gazette,_ 1786.
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_Providence Street-Lottery._
CLASS 3d.
THE Managers present the public with the following SCHEME of a LOTTERY, granted by the Hon. General Assembly of this State, at their January Session, A.D. 1795, for raising a Sum of Money to defray the Expences of Finishing, in a durable Manner, a Street at the North End of this Town.
This being the great Continental Thoroughfare and Post Road, and much frequented at all Seasons by Persons on Foot and Horse-Back, and by Teams and Carriages, merits the greatest Attention to its Improvement from Town and Country.
The old Road was crooked and inconvenient, the new Street is Streight, and secured in such a Manner as to be passed in Carriages at all Times with Ease and Safety.
The Utility and Necessity of this work, so obvious to every one, and the great Chance to Adventurers, there being only _about Two_ Blanks to a Prize, induce the Managers to rely on the Patronage of the Public, for a rapid Sale of the Tickets.
5340 Tickets, at TWO DOLLARS each, are 10,680 Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to no Deduction.
_Dolls._ _Dolls._ 1 Prize of 1000 is 1000 1 300 300 1 200 200 4 100 are 400 10 50 500 20 30 600 40 20 800 50 10 500 100 6 600 1482 3 4446 ---- ---- 1709 Prizes, 9346 3631 Blanks, 1334 ---- ---- 5340 Tickets, at 2 Dolls. each, is 10680
To commence drawing the 1st June next.
TICKETS may be had by applying to the subscribers; and the Prizes paid on demand. Prizes not demanded within six months after the drawing, will be considered as generously given for the finishing the work.
EBENEZER MACOMBER, } SAMUEL THURBER, jun. } Managers. STEPHEN RANDAL, } BENJ. TURPIN, }
--> TICKETS in the above Lottery, may be had of EBEN. LARKIN, of WM. P. BLAKE, and at the Post-Office, Boston, Feb. 21, 1795.
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Those who remember the late Colonel John Russell, at one time president of the Bank of General Interest in Salem, and a kindly, benevolent "gentleman of the old school," will read with interest his advertisement of "A New Dispensary," from the "Salem Gazette," March 24, 1807.
_A New Dispensary!_
NUMEROUS are the instances that can be cited of a less, a much less, sum than _Twenty Thousand Dollars_ having restored to their pristine vigor precarious circumstances, and of making the _poor become rich!_ Let stubborn prejudices be laid aside, and an immediate resort made to that GRAND ANTIPOVERTY CORRECTIVE, CASH, which is now proffered as a sovereign remedy for all the complaints that poverty is heir to:--in asserting the superior efficacy of this preventive of the evils attendant on a state of poverty, it is not intended to trespass on truth--let it be fairly tried, when the 'majesty of its own worth' will be manifest. The door is now open for the reception of such as would like to try the experiment:--There is _Hatfield Bridge Lottery,_ which commences drawing the 15th of next month; this affords a _potion_ of EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS; if, after a fair trial here, the desired effect is not produced, then there is the _Harvard College Lottery,_ which commences in May, which has the highly _balsamic cordial_ of TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, which will produce the most wonderful effects, by giving a _solid tone_ to the regions of the pocket, and by enriching and invigorating the whole system, as can be satisfactorily tested:--Twenty Thousand Dollars would
"Cheer the heart, and make the spirits flow!"
Perseverance is highly recommended, and if the wishes are not gratified by the attainment of the desired object, the consoling reflection will recur, that--"_there are not quite two blanks to a prize_"--which is more than can be said of quackery in general. Tickets and Quarters for sale by John Russell.
--> To-Morrow the price of Tickets rise--purchasers can be accommodated until 9 o'clock, this evening.
--> A handsome Premium given for Essex County Money.
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The Boston "Herald of Freedom," in December, 1789, advocates a lottery for that town for the benefit of the poor, among other things, and to supply the town with lamps to light occasionally for the "safety of the citizens," etc.
A citizen would wish to know why among the many lotteries now in being, there is not one for the benefit of this town? Can it be said we have no need of any?--Sure there are many uses the net proceeds of a lottery may be converted to, for this town's benefit: Though he means not to dictate, yet would suggest the following;--that a granary might thereby be opened, and the poor supplied with different kinds of grain, at a reduced price;--that several parts of the town might be paved; which would serve to employ many of the industrious poor among us;--and that the town might be supplied with Lamps, which by being occasionally lighted would tend to the safety of the citizens. From these, among other beneficial effects, he hopes the town will have a meeting, and petition the General Assembly at their approaching session for leave to establish a lottery for the above, and other, useful purposes.
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From the "Salem Gazette," May 10, 1791.
No. 17221, which drew 2000 dollars in the Semi-annual State lottery, was paid on Friday last, by Messrs. Leach and Fosdick, in Boston. The proprietors were _four Africans_ belonging to Newport.
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From the "Columbian Centinel," June 5, 1790.
Two apprentices belonging to Mr. _Bemis,_ Paper-Maker, in Watertown drew the 1000 dollar prize in Williamstown Lottery.
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_STATE LOTTERY TICKETS._
TICKETS in the _State Lottery_ may be had at MARGARET PHILLIPS's Shop, CORNHILL, _Boston. Also,_ TICKETS in the 7th Class of _Williamstown Free-School_ Lottery. April 28.
_Columbian Centinel,_ April 28, 1790.
Lines on the prizes drawn by the poor widows of Marblehead. From the "Columbian Centinel," April 24, 1790.
_CASTALIAN FOUNT._
_FOR THE CENTINEL._
LINES,
_On the Prize of_ FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS _being drawn by the poor Widows of Marblehead, written there._
WHENCE this increase of wealth? What bounteous hand Grants more than sanguine Hope could e'en demand? Nor _Chance_ nor _Fortune_ shall the merit claim, Those fancied forms to _Folly_ owe their name: Such airy phantoms ill deserve our lays; A nobler object calls forth all our praise. That Pow'r Supreme, who knows no great or small, But looks unchang'd with equal eye on all-- Who lifts the poor from their unnoted state, And humbles at his will th' aspiring great-- Whose hand divine hath held us in its span, And fed, and cloth'd us since our lives began-- Hath, sure, this last rich gift in kindness sent, To be improv'd, and not in riot spent; A further proof of Heav'n's indulgent care, In which our poorer neighbours ought to share. Accept, Great God, what thankful hearts can give, For life and health, and all the means to live! Much thou hast added to our former store; O keep us still as humble as before! What thou hast lent, direct us how to use, And teach us when to give, and when refuse. To others freely let our bounty flow, But not beyond Discretion's limits go. Then let us live as useful as we can-- Grateful to God--beneficent to man-- Possess obscure the bliss of doing good, Never so well _explain'd_ as _understood._
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20,000!! 5,000!! 1000!!! Dollars.
WHO is there that would not give 6 dols. 50 for one of the above sums, or 1 dollar 75 cts. for a quarter of one of them. Chances to gain one are now selling at the above prices, at KIDDER & CO's, _Lottery, Insurance on Tickets, and Intelligence Office, No. 9, Market-square._
Tickets and Quarters will be insured during the drawing of the Lottery, which presents an excellent chance for saving the cost of Tickets!! Adventurers will do well to call!!!
_Boston Palladium,_ June 9, 1807.
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--> _LUCK INDEED!!_
YESTERDAY No. 2159 in the Kennebec Bridge Lottery, came up the valuable Prize of
_ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!_
and as usual was sold, at the most fortunate and truly lucky Office of
RALPH HUNTINGTON,
No. 14, Exchange-street, 3 doors from State-street. This is the 5th Capital Prize in the Kennebec Lottery, sold by RALPH HUNTINGTON.
The highest Prize of $25,000 will be drawn this afternoon, at 3 o'clock. R.H. has for sale, a few shares in a Company of 100 Tickets, and a few Quarters. Jan. 19. _Boston Palladium,_ 1819.
No. 4072, the _most fortunate_ number, in the State Lottery, sold at the Printing-Office, in Salem, we hear is the property of upwards of a dozen poor widows belonging to Marblehead.
_Columbian Centinel,_ April 10, 1790.
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_FORTUNE'S ANGLERS_:
A NEW LOTTERY SONG.
_TUNE_--"_There are sweepers in high life as well as in low._"
In the fish pond of fortune men angle always, Some angle for titles, some angle for praise, Some angle for favor, some angle for wives, And some angle for nought all the days of their lives: _Ye who'd angle for_ Wealth, _and would_ Fortunes _obtain,_ _Get your hooks baited by_ Kidder, Gilbert & Dean. Some angle for pleasure, some angle for pain, Some angle for trifles, some angle for gain, Some angle for glory, some angle for strife, Some angle to make themselves happy for life: _Ye who'd angle, &c._ Some angle for wit, and some angle for fame, Some angle for nonsense, and some e'en for shame, Some angle for horses, some angle for hounds, For angling's infinite, it never new bounds: _Ye who'd angle, &c._
G. & D. and W. & T.K. for the accommodation of those who purchase Tickets of them, keep _Daily Lists of Prizes and Blanks,_ and a complete statement of the wheels, which can be examined at the close of each day's drawing, free of expense. And for the convenience of their country-customers publish in every paper, while any lottery is drawing, the numbers of all prizes over _seven dollars,_ state of the lottery, &c. &c.
--> Persons at a distance may be assured, that the most punctual and strict attention will be given their orders for tickets, (_post paid_) enclosing cash or prize tickets, addressed to GILBERT & DEAN, 79, _State street,_ or W. & T. KIDDER, 9, _Market-square,_ and the earliest information sent them respecting the fate of their numbers.
*** _Prize Tickets in all the Lotteries taken in pay for other tickets._ March 24
_Boston Repertory,_ March 24, 1809.
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--> Washington's Birth Day.
IT is a little remarkable, that the great
_UNION CANAL LOTTERY,_
commences drawing on the 22d inst. being the birthday of WASHINGTON--and the first drawn blank will be entitled to
_FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS!_
_Boston Palladium, 1819._
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_PATRIOTISM OF THE LADIES._
The Ladies of Massachusetts have ever been distinguished for their patriotism; and although their peculiar province is to soften the cares, and soothe the sorrows of life, yet they have never neglected any proper and decent opportunity of advancing the publick good:--When the Ladies found that Government had established a Lottery to ease the taxes of the people, they generally became adventurers, and it is pleasing to find that this their Patriotism has been in some measure rewarded, by _their sex_ sharing the FIRST CAPITAL PRIZE.
_Columbian Centinel,_ April 28, 1790.
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CONNECTICUT MANUFACTORY
LOTTERY,
For raising the Sum of three Thousand two Hundred Pounds.
The Managers being under oath, and having given bond for the faithful discharge of their trust, present the Public with the following
SCHEME.
1 Prize of 5,000 Dollars, is 5,000 1 - 2,500 - - 2,500 1 - 1,500 - - 1,500 5 - 1,000 - - 5,000 10 - 500 - - 5,000 15 - 200 - - 3,000 50 - 100 - - 5,000 100 - 50 - - 5,000 300 - 25 - - 7,500 325 - 15 - - 4,875 500 - 10 - - 5,000 4,400 - 8 - - 35,200 1 last drawn Blank, - - 760 ------ ------ 5,709 Prizes, 85,335 11,358 Blanks. ------ ------ 17,067 Tickets at 5 Dollars each, is 85,335
Not two Blanks to a Prize.
Subject to a Deduction of 12 and an half _per Cent._
This Lottery was granted by the honorable General Assembly for the encouragement of a Manufactory of Woolen, Worsted, and Cotton, in this State, under the superintendance of William M'Intosh, (late of London) a Gentleman of Information and Experience in the construction and use of the new invented Machines for that Purpose, a Number of which being completed he hath now in use.
The Managers flatter themselves that all Persons will become Adventurers in this Lottery, who consider the importance of the Object for which it was granted, as they will thereby aid one of the most valuable Manufactories attempted in this State, since the era of Independence.
They contemplate a speedy sale of the Tickets, and engage a punctual payment of the Prizes, if demanded in six Months after drawing, which is to commence on the 21st day of October next, and when finished, the fortunate numbers will be published in the Connecticut Journal.
TIMOTHY JONES, } HENRY DAGGETT, } ELIAS BEERS, } Managers. WILLIAM LYON, } NATHAN BEERS, }
New-Haven, May 16, 1794.
_Tickets to be had of the Managers,_ _and of_ Thomas Hilldrup, _at the Post Office Hartford._
_Connecticut Courant,_ Hartford.
The General Assembly of Rhode Island grant a lottery for the "advancement of religion" in 1794. Advertised in Boston.
SCHEME _of a_ _LOTTERY_--
Granted by the Honourable General Assembly of the State of _Rhode-Island,_ &c. at their Session held in October, 1794, for the purpose of finishing a HOUSE for PUBLIC WORSHIP--Consisting of 3000 Tickets, at 3 dollars each, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to a Deduction of _Twelve and an Half per Cent._
1 _Prize of_ 1000 _Dollars, is_ 1000 1 500 500 2 _Prizes of_ 250 500 5 100 500 10 50 500 20 25 500 50 10 500 1000 5 5000 ____ ____ 1089 _Prizes._ 9000 1911 _Blanks._ ____ 3000 _Tickets._
As this Lottery was granted for promoting Public Worship, and the advancement of Religion, we flatter ourselves that every well-wisher to Society and good Order will become cheerful adventurers. For those who adventure from Motives of Gain, the Scheme is advantageously calculated, there being less than two _Blanks_ to one _Prize_--and Bonds given for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in us.
As a considerable number of the Tickets are already engaged, we expect to draw said Lottery by the first of May next. Prizes not demanded within six months after drawing will be deemed as generously given towards finishing said House. The time and place of drawing will be notified--a List of the Prizes will be immediately published in the _Herald of the United States_--and paid on demand.